New Glasses

A week ago yesterday (1/25/10) Emily had a follow up eye appointment. We knew they were going to say that it hadn't gotten any better, and we were expecting to get a prism put on her glasses in prep for surgery. Well...we got there and Dr. Nichols checked her eyes, and prescription. He said that he prescription changed so we needed to get new lenses, but we opted for a new pair of glasses since her old pair was in bad shape. He also told us that he didn't think she was going to need the surgery, so no prism, so that is a good thing. He also doesn't think the eye problems are caused from her hemangioma. They are probably caused by Mike and his poor eye sight, but the hemangioma is what caused us to catch it so early. The reason he doesn't think the hemangioma caused it is because when eye problems occur from hemangiomas there is usually an astigmatism from the pressure being put on the eye, but she doesn't have that. The bad news is we don't know if the need for glasses will be a permanent thing or just until the alignment comes back to normal, which we hope the new prescription will fix. We are also supposed to patch for all waking hours which is a bummer. The good thing though is that Emily has opted to do a drop of atropine instead of patching so I don't have to battle the patch anymore. She kept taking off the patch and telling me she didn't want to wear it because people would make fun of her. So sad. I didn't think this kind of stuff started this young. Anyway, we think she is beautiful and we picked up her new glasses yesterday and she was so excited because they have cherries on the ear piece and a princess crown for the label...and of course they are pink! She also takes after her mom and picked the most expensive frames, Juicy Couture.